''Berinda'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...
of
ground spiders that was first described by
Carl Friedrich Roewer
Carl Friedrich Roewer (12 October 1881, in Neustrelitz – 17 June 1963) was a German arachnologist. He concentrated on harvestmen, where he described almost a third (2,260) of today's known species, but also almost 700 taxa of spiders and numerou ...
in 1928.
Species
it contains seven species in Mediterranean Europe and the near East:
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Berinda aegilia''
Chatzaki, 2002 – Greece
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Berinda amabilis''
Roewer, 1928 (
type) – Greece (Crete)
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Berinda cooki''
Logunov, 2012 – Turkey
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Berinda cypria''
Chatzaki & Panayiotou, 2010 – Cyprus
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Berinda ensigera''
(O. Pickard-Cambridge
Octavius Pickard-Cambridge FRS (3 November 1828 – 9 March 1917) was an English clergyman and zoologist. He was a keen arachnologist who described and named more than 900 species of spider.
Life and work
Pickard-Cambridge was born in Blox ...
, 1874) – Greece (incl. Crete), Turkey
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Berinda hakani''
Chatzaki & Seyyar, 2010 – Turkey
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Berinda idae''
Lissner, 2016 – Greece
References
Araneomorphae genera
Gnaphosidae
Spiders of Asia
Taxa named by Carl Friedrich Roewer
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